Song for Rosaleen

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Massey University Press, 2018 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages
A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises important questions about who we become when our memories fail, how our rapidly ageing population can best be cared for, and what this means for us all.

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Song for Rosaleen
Pip Desmond
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About the author (2018)

Pip Desmond is a Wellington writer, editor and oral historian. She is the author of the award-winning Trust: A True Story of Women and Gangs and The War That Never Ended: New Zealand Veterans Remember Korea. Pip has an MA in creative writing and runs communications company 2Write with her husband Pat. They have three children and four beautiful grandchildren.

Bibliographic information

TitleSong for Rosaleen
AuthorP. Desmond
Editionillustrated
PublisherMassey University Press, 2018
ISBN0995100128, 9780995100121
Length256 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / General
Medical / Neurology
Social Science / Gerontology
  
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